The Relationship between Self-concept and Language Performance among 3rd grade High School Students

According to research, academic self-concept and language performance are mutually interdependent. In the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the language performance of students in English as a foreign language. The participants were 320 students studying in 3rd grade of high school in Zanjan province who were chosen using intact sampling method. The data collection instrument for academic self-concept was Academic Self-Concept Questionnaire (ASCQ) (Liu Wang, 2005) which consists of 20 items. For obtaining data regarding the students’ Performance, the student’s marks in their final exam of high school in the high school were used. Correlation among variables was measured through Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, and a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was applied to find differences in sub-groups.